Such a record as this places Ross definitely in the ranks of the truly great investigators whose labours, like those of Pasteur, Lister, Jenner, and Golgi, have conferred inestimable and@ lasting benefits upon the human race. All the world has shared in these benefits: but by Great Britain, which, as the possor of vaster areas in the epics than have ever be-tors been ruled by a single sceptre, has profited more abundantly than any other country, a very special debt of gratitude is due to the son who has. rendered to her and to the millions under her government and_ protection this incalculable service.
It is felt by us, and we believe by many others whose interests are mainly centred' in the Tropics and in their civilization and development, that the occasion of the 26th anniversary of Ross's discovery should not be suffered to pass by without some fitting monument to his achievement being erected in London, the heart of the Empire, that may be a pub-lie recognition of his services while he is still among ug and a lasting memorial to him after his death.
Thera is in process of organization the nucleus of an institute, which it is suggested should be called the "Ronald Ross Clinique for Tropical Diseases and Hygiene," in which it is proposed that laboratory research and clinical investigations should be combined as closely as possible in accordance with his teaching. There already exist in England two Schools of Tropical Medicine, one situated in London and one in Liverpool, both of which have rendered most valuable services to the cause of combating tropical diseases. Their activities, however, are in the main directed to educational work, for training young medical men for practising in the Tropics. It is proposed! that the institute should supplement and in no way compete with these Schools of Tropical Medi-that its primary object should be research, and not teaching: that a clinical establishnzent should be maintained in intimate conjunction with its Jaboratories; and that in it Ross—a master mind—assisted by other experts in medical science, should have the fullest. scope for the initiation and continuation of researches into the still unsolved problems of tropical medicine and hygiene.
There is a Pasteur Institute in, Paris; a Kitasato Institute in Japan; a. Gorgas Institute at Panama; and it is strongly felt that Great Britain should honour one of her greatest investigators by the establishment of a Ross Institute in London. To initiate the Ross Institute £50,000 is required. Cheques should be made payable to the Ross Clinique and sent to the honorary treasurer, Lord Willoughby de Broke, 56, Quown Anne Street, W. 1. or direct to the manager of the Westminster Bank, 1, Stratford place, Oxford Street, W. 1.
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